3 papers
cs.CL2026
On the Design of Qwen3.8-Next Architecture: Evaluation, Efficiency, and Training Stability
Zihan Qiu, Zekun Wang, Xiao Li +33
We describe the architecture and ablations of Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 125B parameters, 6B activated per token, and additional 51B parameters of n…
cs.DC2026
Libra: Taming Attention Workload Skew in Long-Context LLM Training with Bounded Sequence Pool
Yan Wang, Xiulong Yuan, Kaiming Yang +16
Long-context LLM training suffers from a load-balancing problem that sequence packing does not solve. Packing samples into fixed-token sequences balances memory and linear-cost ope…
cs.DC2026
Accelerating Compound LLM Training Workloads with Maestro
Xiulong Yuan, Hongqing Chen, Jiaxuan Peng +16
Compound LLM training workloads-such as knowledge distillation and multimodal LLM (MLLM) training-are gaining prominence. These typically comprise heterogeneous components differin…